O RLY, Slick Willard???
"Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced." — MITT ROMNEY, APRIL 11, 2006
Posted on 10/28/2009 7:28:14 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is acknowleding that the health care plan he famously implemented as governor did nothing to address costs.
"We were unable to deal with - and didn't have any pretense we would somehow be able to change - health care costs in Massachusetts," Romney said in an interview with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "We still have a fee for service, a re-imbursement system here like every other state in America. That's the way Medicare and Medicaid are structured, that's the way the insurance industry is structured."
Romney said "Massachusetts is not the model" for reducing health care costs.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
O RLY, Slick Willard???
"Every uninsured citizen in Massachusetts will soon have affordable health insurance and the costs of health care will be reduced." — MITT ROMNEY, APRIL 11, 2006
Government cannot cut the cost of anything!
They can only cut prices, which leads to rationing, black markets, quality reduction, waiting lists, etc...
what was yer first clue you dumb ass???
fool you into believing in me?
Captioning the “health”care Baystate Boondoggle signing photo in your post #1: (Teddy’s behind-the-back ventriloquist-like gruntline he’s giving the Mythster) “Yeah, laugh now, Dem puppet.”
IN light of my caption to post #1, the only song Mitt could be singing here is: “I’m your puppet. I’m your puppet.”
Government cannot cut the cost of anything!
Not true. Government can reduce regulation or limit frivolous lawsuits for instance.
and then there are those who call it “wildly successful”
Romney’s sell out on MA health care will probably doom future aspirations for higher office.
The "hated"(?) commercial HMO/PPO plans pay 140% of hospital costs to make up the difference, and they - who bear this massive hidden tax or cost shift - get all the blame!!!! So crazy .....
This is just one state, but it is essentially the same story across America , and is rapidly getting worse as the states and the feds accelerate the problem. A "public option" paying Medicare rates will: force hospitals to make drastic cost and staff cuts, lead to heavy unionization of hospitals, bankruptcy in short order for most hospitals, and the "need" for federal bailouts and control over hospitals. Ho-hum?
As well it should, and I intend to yoke him with that every opportunity I can when someone brings his name up as a candidate for president.
You betcha...if it is Barry Hussein Sotero (or whatever his name was in elementary school) Vs. Romney as the GOP nominee,]
I will pull the lever for Romney.
That does not mean I have made up my mind to vote for Romney
in the primaries. Currently Pence is high on my list.
But I can not give BHO any advantage.
I refuse to pull the lever for either of two liberals.
Too late to say otherwise now after you performance the past few months.r
You forgot one important detail!
I preferred Romney over McCain & Huckster in the last primary.
No other choices were in play by the time the election was
held in Wash state.
Of course I voted McCain over Barry Sotero.
OK but then your liberal cousins will enthusiastically vote for Barry Hussein Sotero. So you are helping Barry get elected by default. How stupid!
As opposed to electing a liberal snake like Romney who will end up accomplishing things that an avowed Marxist Democrat like Obama would have only dreamed of accomplishing?
Thanks, but NO THANKS!
I don't vote for liberals, no matter what letters follow their names!
I will never pull a lever for that RINO.
I voted for McCain last year and that was bad enough. Only Sarah Palin took some of the sting out of that.
I'm not doing that again.
We need to get a conservative on that ticket.
One does to do that for a “lesser of two evils” choice.
The Third Riech is a model for reducing health care costs. That’s Obamacare’s appeal.
This non-reimbusement system the government has set up to save them health care dollars has run most of the hopsitals on the Texas border out of business. They won’t keep the illegals out and they won’t pay for their “free” health care either.
Don’t matter what you think. Barry will win easily in 2012
with fools who will stay home on election day.
As for Sarah Palin, so long as Tina Fey is around, she has no chance to win against Barry.
The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, poor loser “I am Myth” Romney and
TeamROMNEY decided …… to attack Gov. Palin (and her defenseless children) to throw Election2008.
The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
He’s a liar, and apparently cannot help himself.
Unasked question by Gupta:
“Are you lying now Governor or were you lying then?”
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